3 6 VERSE 3. M 9 King.8.!3. n Mat.ze.%. z Sarri.s4. 15,19. Chrifispeopleamillingpeople, witneffebetween au, ifwe doe not accordingto all things forthe whichthe Lord thy Godflall thee unto us ,c. I fuppoie they then meant as they fpake, andyet thisap. peares in the end to have ,beenebut a velleitieand incons- ?lett rerolation, a zealouspangof that ferret hypocrite which in the end difeover'd it idle, and brake forth into manifefl contradiaion : when, m Hatael anfwered the Prophet, Is thyfervant adogthat bee Jiwulddoe thus and thusthethenmeant no otherwife than hee fpake, upon the full reprefentationof thole bloudie faas, heabhor- red them as belluine and prodigious villanies; and yet this wasbut a velleitie andfit ofgoodnature for the time whichdid eafilymare out with the alterationofocca- lions.When ludat asked Chrif1,0 !Wafteris it I that 'bail betray thee? (though a man can conceive no hypocrite tooblacke to comeout ofthe hell ofludas his hcart)yet poffible, and peradventure probable it may be,that hea- ring at that time and beleeving that wofull judgement pronounced byChria againfi his betrayer, It had been goodfor that MVOs! be had never beene borne, he might then upon the pangand furprizall offo fearefull a doome feeretly and fuddenly relent, and refolve to forfake his purpofe of treafon ; which yet when that florme was over, and his covetous heart was tempted with abribe, did fearefullyteturne and gather flrength againe. When the people returned and inquired early, and remembred Godtheir Maker,theywere in goodearncfl for the time, andyet that was a velleitiondsogroundeddevetien,their heart wasnotright towards Nina, neither were they fled- fall in his Covenant. When 0 Saul out of the force of natural! ingenuity, did upon the evidence of David, integritie , who flew himnot when the Lord had deli- vered him intohis hands, relent for thecitric, and weepe, and acknowledgehis righteoufneffe abovehis ovine, he fpakeall this inearnell as he thought; and yet wee finde that hee afterwards return)(1 topurfue him againe, and was
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